By Tennis Now | @Tennis_Now | Monday, December 9, 2024
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In its goal to make tennis extra accessible, the USTA is investing in Courtroom 16.
The USTA in the present day introduced that its sinvestment initiative USTA Ventures has invested in Courtroom 16, a New York-based firm that gives tennis in distinctive and technologically superior codecs by means of its community of indoor tennis golf equipment.
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Based in Brooklyn in 2014, Courtroom 16’s presence now contains places in Lengthy Island Metropolis, Downtown Brooklyn, Manhattan’s Monetary District, and forthcoming places in Philadelphia and Westchester’s Ridge Hill, opening in 2025. Courtroom 16 offers an revolutionary and inclusive tennis expertise, the place youngsters, adults and households can join, be taught and develop each on and off the courtroom. Delivering dynamic tennis programming, Courtroom 16’s cutting-edge curriculum builds a powerful technical basis, develops well-rounded athletes, and conjures up a real ardour for the game.
Execs, together with Carlos Alcaraz, Felix Auger-Aliassime and Leylah Fernandez have performed clinics at Courtroom 16 in Lengthy Island Metropolis.
“Courtroom 16’s distinctive programming mannequin creates larger accessibility for our sport, delivering tennis and constructing neighborhood in places that will not in any other case have entry on account of house limitations or monetary constraints,” mentioned Ted Loehrke, Managing Director, Part Partnerships, USTA. “Our mission is rising tennis to encourage more healthy individuals and communities in all places, and Courtroom 16 has proven that it might assist us to ship this wonderful sport year-round to gamers and potential gamers in main markets throughout the nation.”
It’s the second funding made by the USTA Strategic Funding Committee, by means of USTA Ventures.
Earlier this yr, USTA Ventures introduced its funding in PlayReplay, a tennis expertise firm that includes an digital line-calling (ELC) system set to extend entry to correct, user-friendly ELC for junior, grownup and leisure play nationwide. Fashioned in 2023, the committee is “targeted on buying fairness stakes in applied sciences and different corporations that can assist advance the USTA’s mission,” the USTA mentioned in an announcement.
